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A review by roadtripreader
The Eater of Gods by Dan Franklin
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
fast-paced
4.5
"This place is cursed, that place is cursed - you're not happy without a good curse"- The Mummy (1999)
I couldn't help it, this book made me go binge-watch my favorites: Brandon Frasier and Rachel Weiszin The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. What a good book to be able to do that. Yes yes it's horror but cmon; not-so-intrepid adventurers forming a little band off tomb raiders of to find ancient livery. I mean talk about nostalgia.
The Egyptology department is dead - well in this book it is and that's as much a tragedy as the death of a character who is only mentioned and recalled in memory; Clara. She is the reason for this archeological expedition - to honor her memory. What ensues is classic Curse of the Antiquities story. Marvelous.
In keeping with the overaching themes of faith, religion and unanswered prayers. I so love finding hidden gems and then "preaching the word" of great storytelling to anyone who'll listen. If I were going door to door - this would be one of the gems.
"Excuse me ma'am, do you have time to talk about the good word of The Eater of Gods, and a few more in my briefcase?" - Me in an alternate reality pushing books like a Jehovah's witness on a neighborhood crawl.
Plot/Storyline: taking place in the exotic hellscape of Libya (post Gaddafi, current civil war, migrant slavery, hopelessness) these characters navigate a ravaged area filled with the tail end of what moral degradation in a society looks like at the end. Bullet holes everywhere. Only money talks, but in riddles and full of lies.
Hazred says of the God-Eater: As for some curse… let it come. If this thing is real, I hope she starts with Allah.”
Characters: in the words of Norman: Fucking Cal but also, I pity everyone, let me mourn you all.
Favorite scenes: Too many.
●“Growers and showers,” Charlie said around a second yawn. “Egyptian culture was all about the visible size because it’s an open desert, but not Libya. This place wasn’t always so arid. People out this way built down, not up.” (Charlie on the anticlimactic visage of The House of Kiya-ten.)
● -1 If we're being pedantic about explorers wearing biohazard protective masks to enter an ancient ruin, consistency demands that they wear the whole kit and kaboodle. Not just the masks. Spores enter the skin through every pore - face and elsewhere.
Favorite Quotes/Concepts:
●These things were ancient to ancient people. (Anita on the mystery of Kiya-ten)
●Grave robbing is like prostitution, it’s only illegal if you don’t film it and distribute it. Then it’s academic. Or pornography.” (Charlie on the essence of Excavative Archaeology)
●Ma’am isn’t an answer. A bomb is expanding gas in a sealed box. Gases expand until the pressure rips the box apart. This is a stone box. We are in the bomb. And get your hand off your gun when I’m talking to you or I’ll take it from you and have you sit in the corner. Do you understand?” (Anita on being a sensible badass.)
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Horror Books by 2025
I couldn't help it, this book made me go binge-watch my favorites: Brandon Frasier and Rachel Weiszin The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. What a good book to be able to do that. Yes yes it's horror but cmon; not-so-intrepid adventurers forming a little band off tomb raiders of to find ancient livery. I mean talk about nostalgia.
The Egyptology department is dead - well in this book it is and that's as much a tragedy as the death of a character who is only mentioned and recalled in memory; Clara. She is the reason for this archeological expedition - to honor her memory. What ensues is classic Curse of the Antiquities story. Marvelous.
In keeping with the overaching themes of faith, religion and unanswered prayers. I so love finding hidden gems and then "preaching the word" of great storytelling to anyone who'll listen. If I were going door to door - this would be one of the gems.
"Excuse me ma'am, do you have time to talk about the good word of The Eater of Gods, and a few more in my briefcase?" - Me in an alternate reality pushing books like a Jehovah's witness on a neighborhood crawl.
Plot/Storyline: taking place in the exotic hellscape of Libya (post Gaddafi, current civil war, migrant slavery, hopelessness) these characters navigate a ravaged area filled with the tail end of what moral degradation in a society looks like at the end. Bullet holes everywhere. Only money talks, but in riddles and full of lies.
Hazred says of the God-Eater: As for some curse… let it come. If this thing is real, I hope she starts with Allah.”
Characters: in the words of Norman: Fucking Cal but also, I pity everyone, let me mourn you all.
Favorite scenes: Too many.
●“Growers and showers,” Charlie said around a second yawn. “Egyptian culture was all about the visible size because it’s an open desert, but not Libya. This place wasn’t always so arid. People out this way built down, not up.” (Charlie on the anticlimactic visage of The House of Kiya-ten.)
● -1 If we're being pedantic about explorers wearing biohazard protective masks to enter an ancient ruin, consistency demands that they wear the whole kit and kaboodle. Not just the masks. Spores enter the skin through every pore - face and elsewhere.
Favorite Quotes/Concepts:
●These things were ancient to ancient people. (Anita on the mystery of Kiya-ten)
●Grave robbing is like prostitution, it’s only illegal if you don’t film it and distribute it. Then it’s academic. Or pornography.” (Charlie on the essence of Excavative Archaeology)
●Ma’am isn’t an answer. A bomb is expanding gas in a sealed box. Gases expand until the pressure rips the box apart. This is a stone box. We are in the bomb. And get your hand off your gun when I’m talking to you or I’ll take it from you and have you sit in the corner. Do you understand?” (Anita on being a sensible badass.)
StoryGraph Challenge: 1800 Books by 2025
Challenge Prompt: 150 Horror Books by 2025